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Frases de Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Data de nascimento: 31. Dezembro 1869
Data de falecimento: 3. Novembro 1954
Outros nomes:Henri-émile-benoit Matisse, Henri-Emile Matisse
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse foi um artista francês, conhecido por seu uso da cor e sua arte de desenhar, fluida e original. Foi um desenhista, gravurista e escultor, mas é principalmente conhecido como um pintor. Matisse é considerado, juntamente com Picasso e Marcel Duchamp, como um dos três artistas seminais do século XX, responsável por uma evolução significativa na pintura e na escultura. Embora fosse inicialmente rotulado de fauvista , na década de 1920 ele foi cada vez mais aclamado como um defensor da tradição clássica na pintura francesa. Seu domínio da linguagem expressiva da cor e do desenho, exibido em um conjunto de obras ao longo de mais de meio século, valeram-lhe o reconhecimento como uma figura de liderança na arte moderna.
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„Desenhar é como fazer um gesto expressivo mas com a vantagem da permanência.“
— Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Fonte: Christian Science Monitor, 25 de Março de 1985
„Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality.“
— Henri Matisse
1921 - 1940, Context: Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.
"Interview with Henri Matisse" by Jacques Guenne, L'Art Vivant (15 September 1925), translated by Jack Flam in Matisse on Art (1995)
„A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humility: white, pure and candid with a mind as if empty, in a spiritual state analogous to that of a communicant approaching the Lord's Table. Obviously it is necessary to have all of one's experience behind one, but to preserve the freshness of one's instincts.“
— Henri Matisse
1940s, Jazz (1947), Un musicien a dit: en art la vérité, le réel commence quand on ne comprend plus rien à ce qu'on fait, à ce q'uon sait, et qu'il reste en vous une énergie d'autant plus forte qu'elle est contrariée, compressée, comprimée. Il faut alors se présenter avec la plus grande humilité, tout-blanc, tout pur, candide, le cerveau semblant-vide, dans un état d'esprit analogue à celui du communiant approchant la Sainte Table. Il faut évidemment avoir tout son acquis derrière soi et avoir su garder la fraîcheur de l'Instinct.
„What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman was well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.“
— Henri Matisse
1905 - 1910, Notes of a Painter' (1908)
„I want to reach the state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture. Perhaps I might be satisfied momentarily with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind..“
— Henri Matisse
1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 410
„I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me..“
— Henri Matisse
Posthumous quotes, As quoted by Theodore F. Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985)
„I am forced to transpose until finally my picture may seem completely changed when, after successive modifications, the red has succeeded the green as the dominant color. I cannot copy nature in a servile way, I must interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture – when I have found the relationship of all the tones the result must be a living harmony of tones, a harmony not unlike that of a musical composition“
— Henri Matisse
1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 411
„There is an impelling proportion of tones that may lead me to change the shape of a figure or to transform my composition. Until I have achieved this proportion in all the parts of a composition I strive towards it and keep on working. Then a moment comes when all the parts have found their definite relationships, and from then on it would be impossible for me to add a stroke to my picture without having to repaint it entirely.“
— Henri Matisse
1905 - 1910, Notes of a Painter' (1908)
„A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter. When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognize which scene of the life of Christ I have before me, but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color.“
— Henri Matisse
1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 413
„The chief aim of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. I put down my colors without a preconceived plan. If at the first step and perhaps without my being conscious of it one tone has particularly pleased me, more often then not when the picture is finished, I will notice that I have respected this tone while I have progressively altered and transformed the others. I discover the quality of colors in a purely instinctive way.“
— Henri Matisse
1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 412
„The vertical is in my spirit. It helps me to define precisely the direction of lines, and in quick sketches I never indicate a curve, that of a branch in landscape for example, without being aware of its relationship to the vertical.
My curves are not mad.“
— Henri Matisse
1940s, Jazz (1947), La verticale est dans mon esprit. Elle m'aide à préciser la direction des lignes, et dans mes dessins rapides je n'indique pas une courbe, par exemple, celle d'une branche dans un paysage, sans avoir conscience de son rapport avec la verticale.
Mes courbes ne sont pas folles.
„Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image which will have a broader meaning, one more fully human.“
— Henri Matisse
1905 - 1910, Notes of a Painter' (1908)
„Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.“
— Henri Matisse
Posthumous quotes, As quoted by in the review of 'The Drawings of Henri Matisse', exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, by Theodore F Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985)
